Keep Covenant over our Gates We need to keep covenant over our gates. Many think that is over the top however, John the Baptist was a Nazarite - limited by God from the world's provision and what they eat. All of our senses have appetites. All types of sin feed appetites. Everything we consume (eat/take in), we consummate covenant with. Our appetites are cleansed by our communion with God. I don't know about you, but my gates (taste, see, smell, hear, and touch) are important to me. As gatekeepers our first responsibility is our own gates and then our metron in our assignment. Whenever you take something into you (consume it) you are making covenant with it. You give your trust to it. Our gates are not to allow anything and everything to come into them / through them. cov·e·nant ˈkəvənənt/Submit noun 1. an agreement. synonyms: contract, agreement, undertaking, commitment, guarantee, warrant, pledge, promise, bond, indenture; More verb 1. agree, especially by lease, deed, or other legal contract. "the landlord covenants to repair the property" synonyms: undertake, contract, guarantee, pledge, promise, agree, engage, warrant, commit oneself, bind oneself "the landlord covenants to repair the property" 1 Corinthians 10:4 (NKJV) and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. This is why Christ Jesus blessed the food before He partook of it. Matthew 14:19 (NKJV) Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. Luke 24:30 (NKJV) Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Matthew 26:26-29 (NKJV) 26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” 27 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

Posted by FilledWithPower at 2024-03-02 03:17:48 UTC